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NCAA D3 Track & Field Recruiting Standards 2026-27

What it takes to run, jump or throw in NCAA D3 track and field: the median Target, Recruit and Walk-On mark in every event across all 351 NCAA D3 programs. 17 programs publish official standards (★).

NCAA D3 men's recruiting standards by event

Event	Target	Walk-On
100m	10.87	11.25
200m	22.07	22.87
400m	49.66	52.19
800m	1:55.99	2:00.60
1500m	3:59.08	4:09.96
5000m	15:03.67	15:52.13
10000m	32:38.18	35:29.28
110m Hurdles	15.55	17.98
400m Hurdles	57.09	1:03.71
3000m Steeplechase	9:58.24	11:27.55
High Jump	1.85m (6' 0")	1.62m (5' 3")
Pole Vault	4.30m (14' 1")	3.05m (10' 0")
Long Jump	6.66m (21' 10")	6.03m (19' 9")
Triple Jump	13.19m (43' 3")	11.83m (38' 9")
Shot Put	13.67m (44' 10")	10.95m (35' 11")
Discus	42.15m (138' 3")	32.86m (107' 9")
Hammer	46.17m (151' 5")	34.37m (112' 9")
Javelin	47.85m (156' 11")	36.29m (119' 0")

NCAA D3 women's recruiting standards by event

Event	Target	Walk-On
100m	12.45	13.20
200m	25.80	27.07
400m	59.37	1:03.61
800m	2:20.67	2:30.11
1500m	4:48.95	5:06.51
5000m	18:19.19	19:22.34
10000m	39:16.20	44:07.90
100m Hurdles	15.64	17.92
400m Hurdles	1:08.93	1:19.68
3000m Steeplechase	11:43.60	13:33.03
High Jump	1.52m (4' 11")	1.34m (4' 4")
Pole Vault	3.25m (10' 7")	2.77m (9' 1")
Long Jump	5.23m (17' 1")	4.66m (15' 3")
Triple Jump	10.55m (34' 7")	9.71m (31' 10")
Shot Put	11.27m (36' 11")	9.30m (30' 6")
Discus	36.03m (118' 2")	27.00m (88' 6")
Hammer	41.74m (136' 11")	32.08m (105' 2")
Javelin	32.83m (107' 8")	22.47m (73' 8")

Each value is the median across 351 NCAA D3 programs. Tap an event for every school's marks, most reachable first.

Common questions

How fast do you need to run the 100m for NCAA D3 track?

At the median NCAA D3 program the men's 100m Walk-On standard is 11.25 and the women's is 13.20; the Target standard is 10.87 for men and 12.45 for women. Standards vary by program: the event table lists every school.

What 1500m time do you need for NCAA D3?

The median NCAA D3 Walk-On standard in the 1500m is 4:09.96 for men and 5:06.51 for women. High school 1600m and mile times are converted on this site's search.

How are NCAA D3 recruiting standards set?

17 of 351 NCAA D3 programs publish their own standards (marked ★ official). For the rest, levels come from what it took to place 8th, 15th and 25th at the program's 2026 conference championship. Standards are a guide, not a guarantee of a roster spot; NCAA D3 programs give no athletic scholarships.

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Every NCAA D3 track & field program (351)

Adrian College Albion College Albright Alfred State Alfred University Allegheny Alma College Alvernia University Amherst College Anderson University (IN)Arcadia University Asbury University Augsburg University Augustana College Aurora University Averett University Babson College Baldwin Wallace University Bard College ★Bates College Belhaven University Beloit College Benedictine University Berea College Berry College Bethany (W.V.)Bethany Lutheran Bethel University Blackburn Bluffton University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brevard Bridgewater College ★Bridgewater State University Brockport State Brooklyn College Bryn Mawr College ★Buena Vista University Buffalo State California Institute of Technology California Lutheran University Calvin University Capital University Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Carroll University Carthage College Case Western Reserve University Castleton University Centenary (La.)Central College Centre College Chapman University Chatham Christopher Newport University City College of New York Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges Clark (Mass.)Coe College Colby College Colby-Sawyer College of St. Scholastica College of Wooster Colorado College Concordia College Concordia University Chicago Concordia University Texas Concordia University Wisconsin Connecticut College Cornell College Cortland State Covenant College Crown Delaware Valley University ★Denison University DePauw University DeSales University Dickinson College Dominican University Drew University Earlham College East Texas Baptist Eastern Connecticut State University Eastern Mennonite University Eastern University Edgewood College Elizabethtown College Elmhurst University Emmanuel (Mass.)Emory University Eureka Farmingdale St.FDU-Florham Fitchburg State University Framingham State University Franciscan (Ohio)Franklin & Marshall College Franklin College Fredonia Fredonia State Geneva George Fox University Gettysburg College Gordon College Goucher College Greenville Grinnell College Grove City Guilford College Gustavus Adolphus College Gwynedd Mercy University Hamilton College Hamline University Hampden-Sydney Hanover College Hardin-Simmons Hartwick College Haverford College Heidelberg University Hendrix College Hiram College Hollins Hood College Hope College Houghton University Hunter College Huntingdon College Husson Illinois College Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Wesleyan University Immaculata University Ithaca College John Carroll University Johns Hopkins University Johnson & Wales (N.C.)Juniata College Kalamazoo Kean University Keene State College Kenyon College Keystone King's College (Pa.)Knox College Lake Forest College Lakeland University Lasell Lawrence University Lebanon Valley College Lehman College Lesley LeTourneau University Lewis & Clark College Linfield University Loras College Luther College Lyon Macalester College Maine-Farmington Maine-Presque Isle Manchester University Marian University Marietta College Martin Luther Mary Baldwin University ★Marymount University (VA)Maryville College Marywood University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Maritime Academy McDaniel College McMurry University Medgar Evers College Meredith Messiah University Methodist Middlebury College Millikin University Millsaps College Minnesota-Morris Misericordia University Miss. Univ. for Women Monmouth College Montclair State University Moravian University Morrisville State Mount Holyoke College Mount St. Joseph University Mount Union University MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering)Muhlenberg College Muskingum University Nazareth University Nebraska Wesleyan University Neumann University New Jersey City University New York University Nichols College North Carolina Wesleyan North Central (Minn.)North Central College North Park University Northwestern (Minn.)Oberlin College Occidental College Oglethorpe University Ohio Northern University Ohio Wesleyan University Olivet College Oneonta Oneonta State Oswego State Otterbein University ★Pacific Lutheran University Pacific University Pfeiffer Piedmont University Plattsburgh State Plymouth State University Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Potsdam St.Pratt Institute Principia PSU Behrend Ramapo College Randolph College Regent University Regis (Mass.)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island College Rhodes College Ripon College Roanoke College ★Rochester Institute of Technology Rockford Roger Williams University Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rowan University Rutgers University-Camden Rutgers University-Newark Sage Colleges Saint John's University Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Salem College ★Salisbury University Salve Regina University Schreiner University Shenandoah University ★Simmons Simpson College Smith College Southern Virginia Southwestern University ★Spalding Springfield College St. Benedict St. Catherine (Minn.)St. Elizabeth St. John Fisher University St. Joseph's (Me.)St. Lawrence University St. Mary's (Md.)St. Norbert College St. Olaf College St. Vincent (Pa.)Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson University Stockton University Suffolk University SUNY Cobleskill SUNY Delhi SUNY Geneseo Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Sweet Briar Texas Lutheran University The Catholic University of America ★The College of New Jersey Thiel College ★Thomas College Transylvania University Trine University Trinity College Trinity University Tufts University ★U.S. Coast Guard Academy UC Santa Cruz UMass Dartmouth Union College University of Chicago University of Dallas University of Dubuque University of Hartford University of La Verne University of Lynchburg University of Mary Washington University of Massachusetts Boston ★University of Puget Sound University of Redlands University of Rochester University of Scranton University of Southern Maine University of St. Thomas (Texas)University of the Ozarks University of the South University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire University of Wisconsin-La Crosse University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh University of Wisconsin-Platteville University of Wisconsin-River Falls ★University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University of Wisconsin-Stout University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Ursinus College Utica University Vassar College Vermont State Johnson Virginia Wesleyan University Wabash College Warren Wilson Wartburg Washington & Jefferson Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Waynesburg Webster Wellesley College Wentworth Institute of Technology Wesleyan University ★Western Connecticut State University Western New England University Westfield State University Westminster (Mo.)Westminster (Pa.)Wheaton College Wheaton College (Mass)Whitman College Whittier College ★Whitworth University Widener University Willamette University Williams College Wilmington College Wis.-Superior Wisconsin Lutheran College Wittenberg University Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester State University York College York College (Pa.)

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